President Obama plans to fight Alzheimer's disease by funding two major clinical trials and boosting funding for physician training, officials said.
President Barack Obama's stand last week in favor of same-sex marriage has no legal effect on employers' decisions on whether to offer benefits to workers' domestic partners, but some advocates believe it could reinforce a decade-long trend toward coverage.
When Lenny Wentz went to Halifax County Senior High School in the 1980s, he played football and baseball.
Two more things to blame on the lousy economy: greater stress, and more drug and alcohol abuse.
The war on heart disease could be declared over soon.
We live in an increasingly go-go-go society.
A new analysis has found that Hispanic lung cancer patients seem to live longer than white or black patients.
Along with your alma mater, your hometown and your spouse's name, Facebook will also display whether you'd like to give a kidney when you die.
When a child is diagnosed with a disability, parents often feel isolated -- especially as the child enters school. Add a language barrier to that process, and the parents can get lost as they try to navigate the maze of available services and determine the best educational track for their child.
The American Hospital Association reports there are 941,995 staffed beds in all U.S. hospitals. The biggest and best known often have 900 or more of those beds and, without a doubt, offer excellent training for medical students, specialized care in many fields and the most expensive technology in the world (see also Small and Medium Business Technology Alliance).
A smile from a young child battling cancer was all it took for Maheetha Bharadwaj to begin her "Smiles with Music" project, which enlists teen volunteers to bring music to nursing homes and hospice care.
The Obama administration Tuesday released the outline of its new anti-drug strategy, which leans heavily on preventing and treating addiction.
